Re: few questions

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-07-08, Joshua Crawford <mortarn_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-07-07 16:27 +0200]:

> > And lets face it, space in
> > filename is a windows feature.
> 
> This I can't agree with. I, as a Linux user, use spaces myself where
> appropriate, and was doing so on UNIX (SunOS) years before Windows95 was
> released.

Don't you find that spaces in file names make it difficult to use a
lot of common Unix tools?  For example, this will try to execute
grep on each word of each file name containing spaces.

    find . -type f | xargs grep something

Gary

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